First of all, I have as much access to the Tigers (read: none) as anyone else who has a television and Fox Sports Detroit. So for me to come up with solutions to fix the team is kind of ridiculous ... I obviously have no particular expertise on this front. We've done the "Fixing" posts at the end of every season on this blog just because they're fun. It's fun to think about preposterous trade proposals and signings and it's fun to pretend you run a pro sports team.

But man, to think a respected, knowledgeable writer for ESPN is going to pick up my inane ramblings, and not only link to it, but discuss it as if it was some sort of plausible scenario is a little sobering, so I feel the need to make the points I was going for in the original a little more cogently.

First, an error: I suggested Milton Bradley as an everyday outfielder would be about the same as Magglio Ordonez defensively, which isn't true. Ordonez is actually a much better defensive outfielder. The fact that Magglio doesn't do things like this is also a plus.

Secondly, the overall point of the post was not to say that Bradley and Justin Ducscherer = Tigers in the World Series. It was to point out that any acquisition the team makes will be of that ilk: either an underachieving trade candidate who can be had for relatively little in return and is a candidate to possibly have a bounceback season, or possibly a free agent coming off an injury or with some other flaw, that drives the asking price down.

So why Bradley? Well, if you haven't noticed many who write for this blog have a bit of a soft spotfor guys who have knucklehead tendencies. I constantly root for Bradley to succeed, so when I was looking for an example of a high-priced player who's current team would like to get rid of him, Bradley was the choice. Does that mean I think the Tigers are legitimately going to trade Jeremy Bonderman for him if the Cubs pay the final year of Bradley's deal? Not even a little. I just wouldn't hate it if Bradley played for my favorite team.

Ducscherer had really good numbers for Oakland in 2008. He has been injury plagued in his career and missed this season while battling depression. He fits the example of the type of low-cost signing the Tigers would make, and I picked him because again, I root for athletes who have real-people problems.